Advanced Robotics, Volume 16

Volume 16, Number 1, January 2002

• Preface. 1-2
  
• Tamaki Ura:
  Development of autonomous underwater vehicles in Japan. 3-15
  
• Michio Kumagai, Tamaki Ura, Yoji Kuroda, Ross Walker:
  A new autonomous underwater vehicle designed for lake environment monitoring. 17-26
  
• Kenichi Asakawa, Junichi Kojima, Yoichi Kato, Shigetaka Matsumoto, Naomi Kato, Teruyuki Asai, Tomotsune Iso:
  Design concept and experimental results of the autonomous underwater vehicle AQUA EXPLORER 2 for the inspection of underwater cables. 27-42
  
• Mikhail D. Ageev:
  Application of solar and wave energies for long-range autonomous underwater vehicles. 43-55
  
• Herbert G. Tanner, Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos:
  Kane's approach to modeling mobile manipulators. 57-85
  
• Karim Achour, A. O. Djekoune:
  Localization and guidance with an embarked camera on a mobile robot. 87-102
  

Volume 16, Number 2, May 2002

• Preface. 103-104
  
• Daisuke Kurabayashi, Hajime Asama, Hayato Kaetsu, Isao Endo, Tamio Arai:
  Knowledge acquisition and sharing among autonomous robots by intelligent data carriers. 105-122
  
• Pham Thuc Anh Nguyen, Suguru Arimoto:
  Computer simulation of controlled motion of dual fingers with soft tips grasping and manipulating an object. 123-145
  
• Jun Nakanishi, Toshio Fukuda, Daniel E. Koditschek:
  Brachiation on a ladder with irregular intervals. 147-160
  
• Fumitoshi Matsuno, Kazuyuki Ito, Rie Takahashi:
  Realization of crawling motion by an underactuated robot with changing constraints. 161-173
  
• Huiyu Wang, Takanori Fukao, Norihiko Adachi:
  Adaptive tracking control for nonholonomic systems with unknown parameters. 175-190
  
• Se-Kyong Song, Dong-Soo Kwon:
  Efficient formulation approach for the forward kinematics of 3-6 parallel mechanisms. 191-215
  

Volume 16, Number 3, May 2002

• Giovanni M. Bianco, Alessandro Rizzi:
  Chromatic adaptation for robust visual navigation. 217-232
  
• Farhad Aghili, Martin Buehler, John M. Hollerbach:
  Development of a high-performance direct-drive joint. 233-250
  
• Yoshihiko Koseki, Tamio Tanikawa, Noriho Koyachi, Tatsuo Arai:
  Kinematic analysis of a translational 3-d.o.f. micro-parallel mechanism using the matrix method. 251-264
  
• Joo-Ho Lee, Hideki Hashimoto:
  Intelligent Space -- concept and contents. 265-280
  
• Andrew J. Davison, Nobuyuki Kita:
  Active visual localization for multiple inspection robots. 281-295
  
• Jean-Luc Buessler, Jean-Philippe Urban:
  Neurobiology suggests the design of modular architectures for neural control. 297-307
  

Volume 16, Number 4, July 2002

• Shugen Ma:
  Time-optimal control of robotic manipulators with limit heat characteristics of the actuator. 309-324
  
• Zhiqiang Weng, Hidekazu Nishimura:
  Final-state control of a two-link cat robot. 325-343
  
• Kiyoshi Ohishi, Hideo Nozawa:
  Robust motion control with the consideration algorithm of joint torque saturation for a redundant manipulator. 345-359
  
• Hun-ok Lim, Yousuke Yamamoto, Atsuo Takanishi:
  Stabilization control for biped follow walking. 361-380
  
• Ryosuke Tajima, Satoshi Kagami, Masayuki Inaba, Hirochika Inoue:
  Development of soft and distributed tactile sensors and the application to a humanoid robot. 381-397
  

Volume 16, Number 5, August 2002

• William R. Hamel, Pamela Murray, Reid L. Kress:
  Internet-based robotics and remote systems in hazardous environments: review and projections. 399-413
  
• Yun-Jung Lee, Shigeo Hirose:
  Three-legged walking for fault-tolerant locomotion of demining quadruped robots. 415-426
  
• Roderic A. Grupen, Jefferson A. Coelho Jr.:
  Acquiring state from control dynamics to learn grasping policies for robot hands. 427-443
  
• Sepanta Sekhavat, Jorge Hermosillo:
  Cycab bi-steerable cars: a new family of differentially flat systems. 445-462
  

Volume 16, Number 6, September 2002

• Masakazu Ejiri:
  President's message: celebrating our 20th anniversary. 463-464
  
• Tsutomu Hasegawa:
  Robotics Research in Japan: its history for three decades Memorial edition of DVD for the 20th Anniversary of the Robotics Society of Japan. 465-473
  
• Preface. 475-476
  
• Takahisa Mano, Shoichi Hamada:
  Development of a robot system for nuclear emergency preparedness. 477-479
  
• Yasuhiro Yuguchi, Yoshifumi Satoh:
  Development of a robotic system for nuclear facility emergency preparedness -- observing and work-assisting robot system. 481-484
  
• Yuuji Hosoda, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Makoto Hattori, Hiroshi Sakairi, Tarou Iwamoto, Masataka Oowada, Akihiro Kanno, Yuuji Saitou:
  'SWAN': a robot for nuclear disaster prevention support. 485-488
  
• Yoshifumi Isozaki, Kimikazu Nakai:
  Development of a work robot with a manipulator and a transport robot for nuclear facility emergency preparedness. 489-492
  
• Kiyoshi Oka, Kiyoshi Shibanuma:
  Development of a radiation-proof robot. 493-496
  
• Tadayoshi Kobayashi, Kazutoshi Miyajima, Satoshi Yanagihara:
  Development of remote surveillance squads for information collection on nuclear accidents. 497-500
  
• Masato Otaki:
  Environmental monitoring robots for nuclear emergencies. 501-504
  
• Yuji Hiramatsu, Takashi Aono, Masami Nishio:
  Disaster restoration work for the eruption of Mt Usuzan using an unmanned construction system. 505-508
  
• Shigeo Hirose, Edwardo F. Fukushima:
  Development of mobile robots for rescue operations. 509-512
  
• Ato Kitagawa, Hideyuki Tsukagoshi:
  Utilization of fluid power for rescue operations and robots. 513-516
  
• Fumitoshi Matsuno:
  A mobile robot for collecting disaster information and a snake robot for searching. 517-520
  
• Masayuki Nunobiki, Koichi Okuda, Motoyoshi Hasegawa:
  Analysis of wake-up motion for an articulated mobile robot. 521-524
  
• Shigeru Kobayashi, Toshi Takamori:
  A human body search system by a man-machine controlled group of robots in a rescue operation. 525-528
  
• Yasushi Mae, Tatsuo Arai, Kenji Inoue, Kunio Miyawaki:
  Application of a 'limb mechanism' robot to rescue tasks. 529-532
  
• Kenichi Tokuda, Koichi Osuka, Yoshihiro Mori, Shinsuke Yano:
  Rescue robot CUL: walking system based on a 'Robotic Follower'. 533-536
  
• Satoshi Tadokoro, Shigeru Kobayashi:
  A portable parallel motion platform for urban search and surveillance in disasters. 537-540
  
• Ryosuke Masuda:
  Development of a rescue robot with a multi-sensor hand system. 541-544
  
• Masahiko Onosato, Taro Watasue:
  Two attempts at linking robots with disaster information: InfoBalloon and garekiengineering. 545-548
  
• Daisuke Kurabayashi, Hajime Asama, Ken-Ichi Noda, Hiroshi Hashimoto:
  An intelligent data carrier system as an information assistant in rescue. 549-552
  
• Kazuyoshi Miyazawa:
  Fire robots developed by the Tokyo Fire Department. 553-556
  
• Hisanori Amano:
  A vertically moving robot able to grip handrails for fire-fighting. 557-560
  
• Nozomu Matsumoto:
  Development of underwater search and rescue remotely operated vehicles. 561-564
  
• Koichi Osuka:
  Rescue Robot Contest - to expand the range of rescue research. 565-568
  
• Satoshi Tadokoro:
  RoboCupRescue international research project. 569-572
  

Volume 16, Number 7, November 2002

• Tao Yan, Jun Ota, Akio Nakamura, Tamio Arai, Noriaki Kuwahara:
  Development of a remote fault diagnosis system applicable to autonomous mobile robots. 573-594
  
• Ludovico Minati, Alessandro Zorat:
  A tree architecture with hierarchical data processing on a sensor-rich hexapod robot. 595-608
  
• Yun-Jung Lee, Zeungnam Bien:
  Path planning for a quadruped robot: an artificial field approach. 609-627
  
• Jose M. Armingol, Arturo de la Escalera, Luis Moreno, Miguel Angel Salichs:
  Mobile robot localization using a non-linear evolutionary filter. 629-652
  
• Ibrahim A. Sultan, John G. Wager:
  Simplified theodolite calibration for robot metrology. 653-671
  

Volume 16, Number 8, December 2002

• Alain Haït, Thierry Siméon, Michel Taïx:
  Algorithms for rough terrain trajectory planning. 673-699
  
• Inhyuk Moon, Jun Miura, Yoshiaki Shirai:
  On-line extraction of stable visual landmarks for a mobile robot with stereo vision. 701-719
  
• Ohung Kwon, Jong Hyeon Park:
  Reflex control of bipedal locomotion on a slippery surface. 721-734
  
• Shugen Ma, Mitsuru Watanabe:
  Time-optimal control of kinematically redundant manipulators with limit heat characteristics of actuators. 735-749
  
• Hongjun Zhou, Shigeyuki Sakane:
  Sensor planning for mobile robot localization using Bayesian network inference. 751-771
  
• Shinichi Aoshima, Hiroshi Kaminaga, Masatake Shiraishi:
  One-hand drive-type power-assisted wheelchair with a direction control device using pneumatic pressure. 773-784
  
• Kiyoshi Ioi, Harukazu Igarashi, Ayanobu Murakami:
  Design of a gravitational wheeled robot. 785-793